In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.